Assassin Thriller

When librarian Patton Harcourt comes under sniper fire in her rural North Carolina home, she is thrown together with professional assassin Nemo and into a web of international deceit. On the run from two German killers, Patton and Nemo discover a 75-year-old Enigma message, which leads them to Bletchley Park in England and a code breaker named Ruthie Drinkwater, an old flame of Patton’s. Unable to complete the job of code breaking at Bletchley, the trio leaves and is pursued by the Germans, who support a white-supremacist agenda.

David Slaton has a good life. He has a new wife and a house in the Virginia suburbs. But he also has a dark past. Slaton is a former kidon, the most lethal Israeli assassin ever created. After decades of work, a brilliant scientist has taken Iran to the threshold of its dream - a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile. Mossad must eliminate the man, but with a spy lurking high in its ranks there is only one option: bring back Slaton.

Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do. With masterful plotting and unnerving psychological insight, Thomas Perry delivers another mesmerizing thrill ride.

He has no name. No past. Only a number. When Agent 917 wakes in a seedy motel room, his memory is gone. Mission orders await on an encrypted phone. A dime-sized implant pulses beneath his skull, unlocking violent instincts he can’t explain. The only thing he knows? He is supposed to kill someone and when it is done, he can go back to sleep. Agent 917 is a ghost in the system, programmed to eliminate evil at its source. His missions send him after a sadistic surgeon terrorizing a desperate mother, a satanic cult teeming in the heart of New York City, a deranged kidnapper and pyromaniac ...

Retired hitwoman Celine Briggs loved few people in this world; Her husband Caleb, and her ex-handler, Brian Devereaux. When Celine took her marital vows, she exchanged the life of guns, drugs, and violence for the peaceful life as Caleb's wife. However, not all things buried stay hidden.

When a commercial airliner is blown out of the sky off the East Coast, the CIA scrambles to find the perpetrators. A body is discovered near the crash site with three bullets to the face: the calling card of a shadowy international assassin.

Is it ethical to fight terror with terror? The British government's crisis committee, known as Cobra, meet in emergency session after a jihadist terror cell strikes at the heart of the United Kingdom, causing massive loss of life. The Heathrow attack is soon followed by coordinated atrocities around the world creating an atmosphere of fear, unprecedented since 9/11. Cobra calls upon a unit of former Special Forces to track and eliminate the terrorists responsible as the country grinds to a halt. While the West uses all justifiable, and intolerable means, to prevent further atrocities, ...

Retired hit woman Celine Briggs loved few people in this world; her husband Caleb, and her ex-handler, Brian Devereaux. When Celine took her marital vows, she exchanged the life of guns, drugs, and violence for the peaceful life as Caleb's wife. However, not all things buried stay hidden. When Celine's past comes knocking, it rattles her world and forces her back into the life she vowed to give up. Now she is turning up the heat on the streets of Chicago, showing no mercy to the men who've undoubtedly marked themselves.

Sam went rogue on his last assignment, so The Agency sidelined his ass while they decide his fate: reinstatement as an elite federal assassin or death by firing squad. Since there’s no place for a vigilante in their ranks, either option is likely. As he waits for the ax to fall, Sam learns that a notorious serial killer he’d previously plugged has mysteriously risen from the grave and is back to his old slashing and murdering ways. Rousing himself from the piles of stale beer cans and festering takeout boxes, Sam loads his guns and barrels off in pursuit of one of the most bloodthirsty ...

In Bullet Train, underworld operative Ladybug was tasked by his handler Maria Beetle with retrieving a suitcase from a high-speed train in Japan. The job did not go according to plan. Will the unluckiest assassin in the world will find things easier this time around? All he has to do is deliver a painting to a hotel guest, a portrait made by his daughter. Easy enough, except when Ladybug makes the delivery, he realizes that the guest is clearly not the guy in the painting. Then he attacks Ladybug, they fight, and the guest ends up dead. How can such simple jobs always go wrong?

Author of the National Book Award-winning All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier.

Nanao, nicknamed Ladybug - the self-proclaimed “unluckiest assassin in the world” - boards a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with one simple task: Grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. Unbeknownst to him, the deadly duo Tangerine and Lemon are also after the very same suitcase - and they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Satoshi, “the Prince”, with the looks of an innocent schoolboy and the mind of a viciously cunning psychopath, is also in the mix and has history with some of the others.

A PROFESSIONAL THAT'S LOST THE DESIRE TO KILL... Tired of a life of violence, hitman Isaac Rhett is ready to retire after one last assignment. But the assignment turns out to be a trap and pits him against the deadliest assassin in the world, Gustav Fabrice. A MADMAN WITH NO PURPOSE BUT TO DESTROY... Gustav is cunning, ferocious, and insane. Without the inhibitions a person would feel against extreme violence, Gustav is on a rampage with the death of Isaac Rhett as his only goal. A single police officer from Interpol is the only witness to the monster that's been let loose on society and ...

NONSTOP EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT ACTION FROM PAGE ONE A candidate for President of the United States must die. His foreign policies pose a threat to other sovereign nations and global conglomerates. A deadly sniper has been hired to kill the candidate, and he is known for making fatal shots from over a mile away! The professional assassin, a former member of the Foreign Legion, boasts a history of ruthless hits. This dangerous marksman is supported in his deadly sniper mission by a group of disgruntled Native Americans; these Mohawk warriors are dedicated to aiding the lethal assassin until their ...

★★★★★ 'The most exciting and rewarding novel of the year.' ★★★★★ 'Best surprise ending ever!' The greatest manhunt in the history of the United States is launched as one of its own turns against it in a devastating and truly shocking attack. One of its most trusted and capable agents is revealed to be one of the most deceitful and traitorous men ever to have lived. The scale of his deceit and hatred for his country is unveiled to the world as he promises a reign of terror that will destroy America. Sparing no expense or resource, the American intelligence community, law ...

Meet Harry, aspiring tech entrepreneur. He’s a would-be Steve Jobs trapped in a cubicle gig at an angel investor firm, so close and yet so far from his dreams. His marriage is foundering, his career is stalled out, and all he wants is to create an app like Uber, or Tinder, something to make real change in the world, and change his own life forever. Now meet Peter, a deeply troubled computer genius who lives in a basement apartment, chugging red wine, nursing old grudges and writing code. When Harry meets Peter, it’s both of their lives that will change, when they invent an app for murder.

As a Secret Service agent, Nick Averose spent a decade protecting the most powerful men and women in America and developed a unique gift: the ability to think like an assassin. Now, he uses that skill in a little-known but crucial job. As a "red teamer", he poses as a threat, testing the security around our highest officials to find vulnerabilities - before our enemies can. He is a mock killer, capable of slipping past even the best defenses.

Shortly after Army lawyer Sean Drummond starts working for the Office of Special Projects, a CIA cell which handles the most dangerous threats, the White House Chief of Staff is found brutally murdered. A note left by the killer promises more victims, including the President.

Bailey is deeply in love with her boyfriend Dino. She has dreams of being his wife and living happily ever after. But sometimes a man can push a woman too far. When Dino breaks Bailey's heart, it unleashes a deadly wrath. Bailey seeks the assistance of Shiffon, her down on her luck cousin who is trying to escape her own heartbreak. When these two women come together, and make a deal that's supposed to benefit them both, their lives will be forever changed. In Episode 1 of Assassins, Be Careful With Me because a heart is very fragile.

Victor, a former assassin-for-hire, has joined forces with a CIA special unit. His first assignment: Three strangers. Three hits. Fast and clean. Victor's a natural for this.It should have been simple. But with each hit Victor is plunged deeper into an unimaginable conspiracy where no one, least of all the people he knows, can be trusted.With the stakes growing higher by the minute, Victor realizes he's been forced into playing a game he never expected. Because he's the next target. And there's no way out.